2007/747/EC: Commission Decision of 19 November 2007 on the recognition of certification procedures in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council allowing voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) and repealing Decision 97/264/EC (notified under document number C(2007) 5291) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-11-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Community certification, environmental monitoring, environmental protection, environmental standard, management audit, management information system

21.11.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 303/37

COMMISSION DECISION

of 19 November 2007

on the recognition of certification procedures in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No
761/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council allowing voluntary participation by
organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) and repealing Decision
97/264/EC

(notified under document number C(2007) 5291)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/747/EC)

to environmental verifier organisations and individual envir-
onmental verifiers;

2.

in German legislation: guidelines for accreditation of certifi-
cation bodies for environmental management systems (EMS)
and certification procedures for EMS — issued September
1996 by the German Federal Ministries of Environment,
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and for Economics
and approved by the Environmental Verification Committee
pursuant to Article 21 of the German EMAS Act (Umwelt-
auditgesetz);

3. accreditation requirements, based on the corresponding
Guidelines endorsed and made publicly available by the
ISO
European cooperation for Accreditation (EA),
14001:2004 certification bodies accredited according to
either of the following:

for

(a)

assessment —
ISO/IEC 17021:2006
Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification
of management systems);

(Conformity

(b) ISO/IEC Guide 66:1999 (General Requirements

for
bodies operating assessment and certification/registration
of environmental management systems EMS) until 15
September 2008.

Decision 97/264/EC is repealed.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 19 November 2007.

For the Commission

Stavros DIMAS
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 allowing
voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-
management and audit scheme (EMAS) (1), and in particular
Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Commission has
identified revised international
standards and European accreditation requirements of
certification bodies
requirements of
that meet
Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 and should
therefore be recognised by the Commission.

the

recognition of

certification procedures

The standards and accreditation requirements recognised
by Commission Decision 97/264/EC of 16 April 1997
on the
in
accordance with Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC)
participation by
voluntary
No 1836/93 allowing
companies in the industrial sector
in a Community
eco-management and audit scheme (2) are no longer
used and Decision 97/264/EC should therefore be
repealed.

The measures provided for
in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee estab-
lished pursuant
to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No
761/2001,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

For the purposes of Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 761/2001,
the Commission recognises the following standards and accred-
itation requirements for the certification bodies:

1.

in Austrian legislation: Environmental Management Law
(UMG BGBl.I Nr.96/2001) in the relevant version applicable

(1) OJ L 114, 24.4.2001, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Council
Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 104, 22.4.1997, p. 35.